Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University
Encyclopedia
The Chair in Medieval and Renaissance English is a professorship in English
at Cambridge University
. It was created in 1954 for C. S. Lewis
, and is unusual among professorships in this field in uniting 'medieval' and 'renaissance' categories and fields of study.
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
at Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It was created in 1954 for C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, and is unusual among professorships in this field in uniting 'medieval' and 'renaissance' categories and fields of study.
Professors of Medieval and Renaissance English
- C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, 1954 - J. A. W. BennettJ. A. W. BennettJack Arthur Walter Bennett was a New Zealand-born literary scholar. He was best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1956 to 1980, having earlier assisted his predecessor, C. T. Onions, and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen...
, 1964 - John Stevens, 1978
- Jill Mann, 1988
- James Simpson, 1999
- Helen CooperHelen Cooper (professor)Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.Helen Cooper studied at New Hall, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1968 and PhD in 1971....
, 2005